Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Wealth

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

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Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore